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📜 Do people read long-form posts?
Answer:
YES and NO
✅ YES:
– If you are genuinely interested in a person, their thoughts, and expertise, you are likelier to read through an entire elaboration.
❌ NO:
– When the topic is boring to readers and you are not good at narrating, their attention will drift away.
☝ This matters:
– The narrator's personality (authority, credibility, expertise, etc.)
– The topic
– The writing style
– The form and medium you use (I am more likely to read the longer form in books than on social media posts.)
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How do you see this topic?
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Vovik Tsybulskyi
Yes, for sure, it depends. But I think in roughly 80% of cases, people prefer to read shorter and more informative texts.
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If people are looking for some specific information or want to understand more about a specific topic, then of course long posts will win over short ones.
I tend to read longer pieces when they cover topics I’m genuinely interested in, while shorter ones are usually for quick information. I think I decide whether to read something thoroughly while reading the first few sentences.
It depends ;) … If I realize that a post was written with or BY ChatGPT, I stop reading immediately. However, if the topics are relevant to our business, I tend to read even long posts - without summarizing them using a service ;)
Usually I scan it first to see, if it's worth the time.
A clean structured writing style with visualization helps.
I love @tim1 (Tim Ferriss) content, but even that is a little too long sometimes.
Depends on the author... I'll still read any long (loooong) blog post written by Tim Urban 😅
And if something makes it to the top of Hacker News or Reddit then at least there's "some" signal that a lot of people found value in this article.
But for everything else... Have ChatGPT summarize it 😂
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It depends. If I'm interested in the topic, absolutely. I think it really comes down to the type of writing being done—if it's an article that's intriguing and offers a fresh or controversial perspective, I'm all in. But if it’s generic or overly promotional, I’m more likely to skip it.